Here is where I will be posting my Narrative Memoir Project along with drafts and blogs relevant to the project. This memoir is about the internal struggles Ive had while going through deep stages of Depression. This is something that has effected me in past years and still does today. My story involves how I have attempted to manage and try to understand my feelings better through music that I listened to during my earlier years.
I haven't written a lot of narratives in previous classes and to be honest, I couldn't tell you when the last time was or even what the paper was even about, so writing this paper took a lot out of me to try to go back and dig down to how I've felt in the past. It was a struggle because I never looked back on past experiences to write about. I couldn't think of a single event that has happened in my life worth writing about or that had any major conflicts, so I had to take that next step and try to write about something that was much more internal and something that was more of a struggle with myself, rather than the world around me. I first hatched this idea to write about when beginning to write my blog post Composing an Emotional Scene where I briefly describe the experience of listening to an album during this point in my life in a very similar light of my narrative project. Although I didn't continue with this same topic in my blog Composing an Emotional Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism, I felt that this would be good to further elaborate in this project, and while completing My Narrative Project: a Wizard-of-Oz Journey, I got a better idea of how I would be able to make this story the best it can be, without it technically being a full-fledged event.